Reeder missed the mark completely. How can he write about loving animals and then promote the pet overpopulation? He mentions “good breeders and bad breeders.” Good breeders prove the quality of their stock in the show ring, breed small numbers of dogs and never sell to pet shops.

Mr. Reeder mentions a lady who “supplemented her income” by breeding and selling hundreds of puppies. That’s an unregulated “backyard breeder,” breeding only for money. Mr. Reeder states that these breeders sell their puppies to good homes. That’s a joke. When the birth rate is 70,000/10,000 per day, every man, woman and child in this country would have to have seven pets in order to find homes for all those born.

Yes Mr. Reeder, the dogs from shelters are not all perfect; many have issues they brought from the puppy mills/backyard breeders they came from. By reducing the shelter population, people do a good deed. If they buy from a breeder cranking out many puppies for money, they support more greed and more cruelty, at a time when more than four million must be destroyed every year, at taxpayers’ expense. Mr. Reeder should inform himself better in the future.